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gloom::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | gloominess, glumness |
| Type of | atmosphere, ambience, ambiance |
| Has types | bleakness, bareness, cloud, desolation, nakedness |
gloom pervaded the office.
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | gloominess, somberness, sombreness |
| Type of | apprehension, apprehensiveness, dread, melancholy |
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | somberness, sombreness |
| Type of | semidarkness |
| Derivation | gloomy |
he struck a match to dispel the gloom.
Examples of gloom
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The young mother had been pushing for hours as the day turned into a dark gloom.
From the edition.cnn.com
Before the doom and gloom, however, investors can reap the benefits of the boom.
From the thisismoney.co.uk
Economists are warning people not to expect any immediate relief from the gloom.
From the money.uk.msn.com
However, the picture for equity investors is not necessarily one of total gloom.
From the economist.com
Like so much of the Pacific, European settlers brought a lot of gloom with them.
From the nzherald.co.nz
It was all doom and gloom when Gylfi was sold, but then we ended up in 5th spot.
From the getreading.co.uk
The gloom of one White House aide over the outgoing Congress was understandable.
From the time.com
Learning that lesson could be the one bright spot in our current economic gloom.
From the sltrib.com
It's just hard to see, amid the current economic gloom, when that day will come.
From the time.com
- A state of partial or total darkness; "he struck a match to dispel the gloom"
- A feeling of melancholy apprehension
- An atmosphere of depression and melancholy; "gloom pervaded the office"
- (gloomy) glooming: depressingly dark; "the gloomy forest"; "the glooming interior of an old inn"; "`gloomful' is archaic"
- (gloomy) filled with melancholy and despondency ; "gloomy at the thought of what he had to face"; "gloomy predictions"; "a gloomy silence"; "took a grim view of the economy"; "the darkening mood"; "lonely and blue in a strange city"; "depressed by the loss of his job"; "a dispirited and resigned ...
- (gloomy) blue: causing dejection; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war"; "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather"
- Gloom is a depressing darkness.
- Gloom is the debut album of Macabre, released in 1989. Several versions of this album exist. Some versions include the Grim Reality EP, other include a few live tracks and two songs from the Grim Reality EP.
- Gloom is a tabletop card game created by designer Keith Baker and published by Atlas Games in 2004. It won the Origins Award for Best Traditional Card Game in 2005. ...
